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Event in Japan to push claim for islets

Eriko Imai, a Japanese Cabinet Office parliamentary vice minister, speaks at an annual event to mark Shimane Prefecture-designated "Takeshima Day" in Matsue, western Japan, on Feb. 22, 2025, held to push Japan's claim to a group of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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A Complete Unknown Premiere - LA

Eriko Hatsune, Edward Norton, Timothee Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Elle Fanning, James Mangold, Scoot McNairy, Boyd Holbrook, Will Harrison and Nick Pupo arrive at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Searchlight Pictures' 'A Complete Unknown' held at the Dolby Theatre on December 10, 2024 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Complete Unknown Premiere - LA

James Mangold, Eriko Hatsune, Edward Norton, Timothee Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Elle Fanning, Scoot McNairy, Boyd Holbrook, Will Harrison and Nick Pupo arrive at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Searchlight Pictures' 'A Complete Unknown' held at the Dolby Theatre on December 10, 2024 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Complete Unknown Premiere - LA

James Mangold, Eriko Hatsune, Edward Norton, Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Elle Fanning, Scoot McNairy, Boyd Holbrook, Will Harrison, and Nick Pupo. At the Los Angeles Premiere Of Searchlight Pictures "A Complete Unknown" at The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, USA on December 10 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Complete Unknown Premiere - LA

James Mangold, Eriko Hatsune, Edward Norton, Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Elle Fanning, Scoot McNairy, Boyd Holbrook, Will Harrison, and Nick Pupo. At the Los Angeles Premiere Of Searchlight Pictures "A Complete Unknown" at The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, USA on December 10 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Complete Unknown Premiere - LA

Matthew Greenfield, Eriko Hatsune, James Mangold, Nick Baxter, Edward Norton, Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Alex Heineman, Michael Bederman, Elle Fanning, Boyd Holbrook, Nick Pupo, Scoot McNairy, Will Harrison, and Fred Berger. At the Los Angeles Premiere Of Searchlight Pictures "A Complete Unknown" at The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, USA on December 10 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Complete Unknown Premiere - LA

James Mangold, Eriko Hatsune, Edward Norton, Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Elle Fanning, Scoot McNairy, Boyd Holbrook, Will Harrison, and Nick Pupo. At the Los Angeles Premiere Of Searchlight Pictures "A Complete Unknown" at The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, USA on December 10 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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A Complete Unknown Premiere - LA

James Mangold, Eriko Hatsune, Edward Norton, Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro, Elle Fanning, Scoot McNairy, Boyd Holbrook, Will Harrison, and Nick Pupo. At the Los Angeles Premiere Of Searchlight Pictures "A Complete Unknown" at The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA, USA on December 10 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Taiwan Japan Collaborative Film

TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 11, 2024 - Actors Ryo Narita and Morita Go and Eriko Nakamura and Li Xing pose at the premiere of the film Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan Province, China, November 11, 2024.

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Taiwan Japan Collaborative Film

TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 11, 2024 - Actress Eriko Nakamura attends the premiere of the film Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan Province, China, November 11, 2024.

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Taiwan Japan Collaborative Film

TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 11, 2024 - Actors Ryo Narita and Morita Go and Eriko Nakamura and Li Xing pose at the premiere of the film Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan Province, China, November 11, 2024.

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Taiwan Japan Collaborative Film

TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 11, 2024 - Actress Eriko Nakamura attends the premiere of the film Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan Province, China, November 11, 2024.

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Walt Disney Company's Emmy Party - LA

Eriko Miyagawa At The Walt Disney Company's Emmy Awards Celebration at The Music Center in Los Angeles, CA, USA on September 15 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Walt Disney Company's Emmy Party - LA

Eriko Miyagawa At The Walt Disney Company's Emmy Awards Celebration at The Music Center in Los Angeles, CA, USA on September 15 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Walt Disney Company's Emmy Party - LA

Eriko Miyagawa At The Walt Disney Company's Emmy Awards Celebration at The Music Center in Los Angeles, CA, USA on September 15 2024. Photo by Fati S/ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S. ready to help Japan resolve N. Korean abduction issue

TOKYO, Japan - Eriko Yamatani (L), minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals, shakes hands with Robert King, U.S. special envoy for human rights issues, in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2014. King said Washington stands ready to help Tokyo resolve the abduction issue.

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Tora-san Museum welcomes 4 millionth visitor

TOKYO, Japan - A ceremony is held to celebrate the 4 millionth visitor to the Tora-san Museum in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on Nov. 8, 2014. The museum is dedicated to Tora-san, a kind-hearted vagabond in popular movie series "Otoko wa tsurai yo" directed by Yoji Yamada. From L: actor Gajiro Sato, Yamada, and museum visitors Kenji Aoyagi and his wife Eriko.

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Ex-head of U.N. panel on DPRK human rights meets abductee kin

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Kirby (R), former chief of a U.N. commission investigating North Korean human rights violations, meets Eriko Yamatani, state minister in charge of the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang agents, at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2014, shortly before meeting a group of Japanese abductees' relatives.

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3 female ministers visit Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - Eriko Yamatani, chairwoman of the National Public Safety Commission, visits the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2014, on the occasion of its autumn festival. Two other female Cabinet ministers also visited there, a move that will likely draw criticism from China and South Korea.

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Abductee's mother urges review of gov't stance at N. Korea talks

TOKYO, Japan - Sakie Yokota (2nd from R), the mother of Megumi Yokota who remains missing after being abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 at age 13, speaks in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2014, at a meeting with a league of parliamentarians pressing for the abductees' safe return. Also pictured are Eriko Yamatani (R), state minister in charge of the abduction issue, and Teruaki Masumoto (2nd from L), secretary general of the Japanese Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea.

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Abductees' kin oppose N. Korea trip by Japanese officials

TOKYO, Japan - Teruaki Masumoto (L), secretary general of the Japanese Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, hands a petition to Eriko Yamatani, state minister in charge of the abduction issue, in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2014, to convey the group's opposition to a proposed trip for Japanese government officials to visit North Korea on a fact-finding mission.

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Minister in photo with anti-Korean residents' group member

TOKYO, Japan - National Public Safety Commission Chairwoman Eriko Yamatani holds a press conference at the National Police Agency in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2014. Yamatani admitted that she had a photo taken in 2009 with a former member of a civic group against privileges for Korean residents in Japan without knowing it.

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Japan abduction minister calls for N. Korea's response

GENEVA, Switzerland - Eriko Yamatani, Japan's state minister in charge of the abduction issue, says in her keynote speech at an international symposium at the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva on Sept. 10, 2014, that North Korea must take serious and concrete steps to solve its past abductions of Japanese nationals while holding a picture of Megumi Yokota, one of the Japanese abductees.

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Abe reshuffles Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Eriko Yamatani, newly appointed as chair of the National Public Safety Commission and minister in charge of the abduction issue, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2014.

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Music producer has tapestry with tsunami-soaked kimono

TACHIKAWA, Japan - Music producer Eriko Shiomi holds her tapestry made of "kimono" soaked by the 2011 tsunami in Tokyo's Tachikawa on Aug. 8, 2014, to cheer up people in northeastern Japan hit by the disaster.

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Runners in costumes awarded at Osaka Summer Fun Run

TOKYO, Japan - Eriko Sawada (2nd from R) in a high school uniform and her friends in birthday cake costumes are awarded for their fun costumes in Osaka, western Japan, on June 15, 2014, at the "Osaka Summer Fun Run."

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10 Japanese land on disputed Senkakus

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Eriko Yamatani, a member of the House of Councillors, offers a sacred tree on the morning of Aug. 19, 2012, during a ceremony to remember the victims of U.S. attacks in 1945 on vessels near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Later that morning, 10 Japanese landed on Uotsuri Island, one of the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, which are at the center of a territorial row with China.

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Law to offer comprehensive relief to hepatitis patients enacted

TOKYO, Japan - Eriko Fukuda (L), a House of Representatives lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, observes a plenary session of the House of Councillors on Nov. 30, 2009, as the upper house approves a law to offer financial support and other comprehensive relief to hepatitis patients. Fukuda led a group of hepatitis C patients in a lawsuit against the government and won her Diet seat in the August election.

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Hirose reaches women's singles semis at Yonex Open

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Eriko Hirose is jubilant after beating Nicole Grether of Germany to advance to the women's singles semifinals at the Yonex Open at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Sept. 25, 2009. The Beijing Olympian is the first Japanese woman to reach the last four of the singles since Kaori Mori in 2001.

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Nagasaki rookie Fukuda wins Diet seat

ISAHAYA, Japan - Eriko Fukuda, a rookie candidate of the Democratic Party of Japan, celebrates in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Aug. 30 after winning a House of Representatives seat in the No. 2 single-seat constituency in the prefecture.

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Nagasaki rookie Fukuda wins Diet seat

ISAHAYA, Japan - Eriko Fukuda, a rookie candidate of the Democratic Party of Japan, celebrates in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Aug. 30 after winning a House of Representatives seat in the No. 2 single-seat constituency in the prefecture.

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Japan soccer team secures berth at Women's World Cup

TOLUCA, Mexico - Members of the Japanese soccer team celebrate after Japan secured a berth at the Women's World Cup on March 17 despite a 2-1 defeat away to Mexico in the second leg of a playoff for this September's finals in China. Eriko Arakawa's crucial strike gave Japan a 3-2 aggregate win and ensured the women's national team extended their proud record of qualifying for every Women's World Cup since the inaugural event in China in 1991.

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Japan advances to semifinals in women's team pursuit

TURIN, Italy - The Japanese women's speed skating team pursuit trio, (from L to R) Maki Tabata, Eriko Ishino and Hiromi Otsu, cruise to overtake the accident-hit Norwegians at the Oval Lingotto at the Turin Olympics on Feb. 15, setting up a semifinal meeting on Feb. 16 with Canada.

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Nagoya couple marry at Chubu airport

TOKONAME, Japan - A Nagoya couple, Eisaku Oyama (L), 35, and Eriko Shioya, 27, pose for photos before their wedding ceremony held in the lounge at the newly opened Chubu Centrair International Airport in Aichi Prefecture on March 5.

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(3)Japan's women stun Sweden in Olympic soccer opener

VOLOS, Greece - Japan striker Eriko Arakawa (R) scores the winning goal during the first half of a game against Sweden in their Group E opener at the Athens Olympic Games on Aug. 11.

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(1)Japan's women stun Sweden in Olympic soccer opener

VOLOS, Greece - Japan striker Eriko Arakawa (C) is celebrated by teammates after scoring the opening goal in the first half of a game against Sweden in the Group E opener at the Athens Games on Aug. 11.

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(1)Japan vs N. Korea in Asian soccer qualifier for Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Japan forward Eriko Arakawa (R) scores the opening goal in the first half of the Asian soccer qualifier for the Athens Olympics against North Korea at National Stadium in Tokyo on April 24.

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(2)Japan vs N. Korea in Asian soccer qualifier for Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Japan soccer team congratulate forward Eriko Arakawa after her goal in the first half of the Asian soccer qualifier for the Athens Olympics against North Korea at National Stadium in Tokyo on April 24.

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4 lawmakers leave DPJ to join new party

TOKYO, Japan - Four House of Representatives members planning to join a new party give a news conference Dec. 24 after submitting letters of resignation to the opposition Democratic Party of Japan. They are (from L to R) Eriko Yamatani, Takao Sato, Hiroshi Kumagai and Zenjiro Kaneko.

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(2)4 lawmakers leave DPJ to join new party

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Eriko Yamatani, Takao Sato, Hiroshi Kumagai and Zenjiro KanekoFour, all House of Representatives members planning to form a new party pose for a photograph after submitting letters of resignation to the opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

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Former world silver medalist Sammiya to hang up blades

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese world silver medalist Eriko Sammiya tells a news conference in Tokyo on April 11 that she plans to retire from speed skating. She only managed to finish 11th in the women's 500 meters in Salt Lake City.

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(5)Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games end

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Japan's speed skater Eriko Sammiya carries the Japanese flag during the closing ceremony for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Feb. 24.

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(1)Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games open

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Speed skater Eriko Sammiya leads the 218-member Japanese delegation, the nation's largest-ever winter sports group to be sent to an Olympics overseas, into the Rice-Eccles Stadium on Feb. 8.

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Osuga beats Sammiya to win women's 500

NAGANO, Japan - Olympic hopeful Sayuri Osuga relaxes after defeating world sprint silver medalist Eriko Sammiya to bag the women's 500-meter title in the speed skating single-distance national championships meet at the M-Wave ice arena in Nagano on Nov. 4.

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Pop group SPEED reunited for charity concert

AWAJI, Japan - The teenage Okinawan pop group SPEED, which had dissolved last March, was reunited for a day on Awaji Island on Oct. 6 to stage a charity concert for victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States and the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated the western Japan city of Kobe and its vicinities. The members are Eriko Imai, 18, Takako Uehara, 18, Hitoe Arakaki, 20, and Hiroko Shimabukuro, 17.

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Olympic champ Takahashi sets record in Ome road race

TOKYO, Japan - Olympic marathon champion Naoko Takahashi breaks another record Feb. 18, when she set a new Japanese best in the women's 30-kilometer road race at the annual Ome ''marathon'' races in western Tokyo. Takahashi clocked 1 hour, 41 minutes, 57 seconds in her second official race since setting an Olympic record at the Sydney Games last September as she negotiated a field of some 15,000 ''fun'' runners. Takahashi shaved 1.29 minutes off the previous national 30-km mark, set by Eriko Asai in 1991.

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Tonoike exults in first World Cup victory

NAGANO, Japan - Aki Tonoike waves to fans and supporters in the stands at the M-Wave indoor ice arena on Dec. 17 after notching her first speed skating World Cup victory with a time of 1:17.07 in the women's 1,000 meters. Reigning world champion Monique Garbrecht-Endfeldt of Germany was second and compatriot Eriko Sammiya third.

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Sammiya wins women's 1,000m at speed skating World Cup meet

NAGANO, Japan - Eriko Sammiya (C) emerges as a double medalist Dec. 16 and snares her second World Cup gold medal in six days in the 1,000 meters while also taking silver in the 500. Sammiya edged reigning world champion Monique Garbrecht-Endfeldt (L) of Germany. Japanese compatriot Aki Tonoike finished third.

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Osuga beats Sammiya to win women's 500

NAGANO, Japan - Olympic hopeful Sayuri Osuga relaxes after defeating world sprint silver medalist Eriko Sammiya to bag the women's 500-meter title in the speed skating single-distance national championships meet at the M-Wave ice arena in Nagano on Nov. 4.

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Former world silver medalist Sammiya to hang up blades

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese world silver medalist Eriko Sammiya tells a news conference in Tokyo on April 11 that she plans to retire from speed skating. She only managed to finish 11th in the women's 500 meters in Salt Lake City.